I am an Ancient Historian (someone who has a masters in Ancient History rather than a historian who is very old). I find that wikipedia is a very erratic source of information. Sometimes there is vast wodges of info and at times there is very little. I have no problem with directing students to wikipedia as a *starting point* but would not accept it as a source in itself. The best way for any prospective historian to tackle a topic quickly and easily at undergraduate level is firstly to read all the recommended primary sources and secondly to walk/cycle/drive/float/teleport down to their campus or department library and pick up the _textbook_ that their tutor has recommended, flick to the bibliography and read every relevent sounding book or article listed therein. There is no other way of producing decent work. Unfortunately for students (lazy, idle, shifty buggers the lot of them) it requires effort.
At undergraduate level in the UK there is no need to concentrate on the bias of secondary sources but any bias in primary sources MUST be recognised and commented on as the work produced will be meaningless otherwise. One cannot write an essay about Nero without explaining the hostility of Christian sources or about Domitian without commenting on the bias in Tacitus. At masters level and above all bias is relevant, including your own.
Suit or no suit, if he goes in alone he's going down. For every nut there's a nutcracker. Being taken by prisoners is every prison officer's worst nightmare.
The Gmail/Googlemail thing wasn't a domain name issue. Google anounced their Gmail project before securing trademarks in every nation. An enterprising frim quickly registered the name Gmail in the UK. They then demanded that Google either stop using the name or pay up huge piles of lovely cash for it. The figure £30m was mentioned at the time. Google thought "Nah!" and decided to use Googlemail instead. New UK subscribers cannot get a 'gmail' account, it has to be 'googlemail'.
I am studying at a reknowned European university who, bizarrely, have the default paper size on their printers set to "US Letter". This means that we can't just print stuff. Every time (Yes, EVERY time) you want to print something you have to go into the print menu and page setup options and change it to A4.
EVERYGODAMNEDFREAKINTIME!!!!!!! Not that I'm bitter about it.
It won't happen, they're off on the wrong track, making faster and more complex algorithmic units, when the human brain doesn't even work off Boolean, but on frequencies of pulse trains processed by neurons that are biological entities themselves, with dynamic interconnections and each cell subject to different "moods" based on the levels of food, oxygen, and hormones its bathed in. In other words, the smallest possible emulation of a brain is a brain.
Some people think that their boss is their friend - that they "see eye to eye" - that they "are on the same page". But it is not true. Nope, not true at all. No siree Bob.
A boss is far more likely to act in his/her own best interests than in your best interests. It brings to mind the adage "He who makes himself indispensable makes himself unpromotable" [and the other version "She who makes herself, etc...]. I once had a half-yearly review where my boss marked me down because it wouldn't do for me to have higher grades than he did as he would look bad. At least he had the courtesy to tell me what he was doing and why and, to be fair, I didn't give much of a shit about the part-time-see-me-through-college job anyway.
That's why I used the word "almost". It's a word that some people, myself included, use to imply that something is very close to but not *exactly* like something else. Try it sometime.
Warfare is endemic in Humanity.
From the Book of Joshua (abbreviated)...
Chapter 6 -
1. NOW Jericho was straitly shut up because of the children of Israel: none went out and none came in.
21 - And they utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and woman, young and old, and ox, and sheep, and ass, with the edge of the sword.
24 - And they burnt the city with fire and all that was therein.
Does this sound familiar to anyone?
This is almost pre-historic siege warfare and what could be described as ethnic cleansing. I'm not picking on the Jewish Nation, it's just that they were kind enough to record their deeds where so many others did not. The archaeological record shows many examples of pre-historic walled cities that were destroyed in sieges, so from the earliest days of 'civilisation' we have fought each other.
Erm...yeah...the problem is that not ALL women look like Jessica Alba or Kelly Brook when naked. You arrive home and go "Aaarg! Mom please! Put some clothes on for chrissakes. You too Gran."
you could enlarge it several times and make geek wrapping paper for Chrimbo. What better to wrap your son/daughter/artifically-created podform's new microscope or electronic set in than Newtonian Latin wrapping paper?
I claim 10% of gross profits as my licensing fee for the idea (got to protect the IP....)
The term "damage" is quite loose here. NASA can claim that $1.3m of damage was caused whereas I would have described it as "$1.3m was spent plugging the holes that shouldn't have been there in the first place". In this case the 'hacker' isn't causing any damage at all, he's merely exposing a badly designed system. Any damage is the fault of the original progammers.
If the US treasury is any good at its job then it already has plans in place to change the currency. There is a continual change in banknote design anyway so much of any additional cost would disappear into the existing budget for upgrading the existing notes.
1 billion dollars buys 3,731343 ABC1150 Commercial Bill Counters which, it must be pointed out, comes with the ability to cope with different sizes of banknote. This allows for 1 new bill counter for every 100 people in the US - a ratio I am sure that does not need to be met. There will be many, many bill-counting machine in use that will not need to be changed when the currency does.
It wouldn't cost millions to change the processes, nor "billions" to change cash-counting machinery. I'm baffled as to why MY post gets pegged as flamebait and your doesn't. As pointed out by others better informed than myself, the US currency fails to support the needs of the visually impaired and, since the law states that discrimination against the visually impaired is illegal, should be replaced. Even if it costs you an extra dollar this year, which I take it is what you are really complaining about.
To make any changes to currency would not only require completely recirculating the billions of papers out there, but it would probably require drastic changes to the printing process. Different shapes, sizes, or including braille print sound like expensive alterations.
Every other country seems to cope with the idea of not helping people fleece the blind and partially sighted. There's no reason whatsoever other than laziness for not modernising the US currency.
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I am an Ancient Historian (someone who has a masters in Ancient History rather than a historian who is very old). I find that wikipedia is a very erratic source of information. Sometimes there is vast wodges of info and at times there is very little. I have no problem with directing students to wikipedia as a *starting point* but would not accept it as a source in itself. The best way for any prospective historian to tackle a topic quickly and easily at undergraduate level is firstly to read all the recommended primary sources and secondly to walk/cycle/drive/float/teleport down to their campus or department library and pick up the _textbook_ that their tutor has recommended, flick to the bibliography and read every relevent sounding book or article listed therein. There is no other way of producing decent work. Unfortunately for students (lazy, idle, shifty buggers the lot of them) it requires effort.
At undergraduate level in the UK there is no need to concentrate on the bias of secondary sources but any bias in primary sources MUST be recognised and commented on as the work produced will be meaningless otherwise. One cannot write an essay about Nero without explaining the hostility of Christian sources or about Domitian without commenting on the bias in Tacitus. At masters level and above all bias is relevant, including your own.
blah, blah, waffle, waffle....I get carried away.
I cracked the "I'm waiting for service pack 3 first" joke to a MS employee. He wasn't at all amused. "know your audience" I suppose
The Earth's only about 6000 years old ;)
e-Stonia?
Dude, that's like so awesome man!Let's get ripped and play "Pong".
He had mean parents
***psssst!**
(whispers) and it's also very pretty and sparkly, like magic pixies.
Suit or no suit, if he goes in alone he's going down. For every nut there's a nutcracker. Being taken by prisoners is every prison officer's worst nightmare.
I never thought I'd see Joke McConnell mentioned on Slashdot. I'm sure Roseanna Cunningham wont get a mention though.
Dammit, too late
The Gmail/Googlemail thing wasn't a domain name issue. Google anounced their Gmail project before securing trademarks in every nation. An enterprising frim quickly registered the name Gmail in the UK. They then demanded that Google either stop using the name or pay up huge piles of lovely cash for it. The figure £30m was mentioned at the time. Google thought "Nah!" and decided to use Googlemail instead. New UK subscribers cannot get a 'gmail' account, it has to be 'googlemail'.
I am studying at a reknowned European university who, bizarrely, have the default paper size on their printers set to "US Letter". This means that we can't just print stuff. Every time (Yes, EVERY time) you want to print something you have to go into the print menu and page setup options and change it to A4.
EVERYGODAMNEDFREAKINTIME!!!!!!!
Not that I'm bitter about it.
It won't happen, they're off on the wrong track, making faster and more complex algorithmic units, when the human brain doesn't even work off Boolean, but on frequencies of pulse trains processed by neurons that are biological entities themselves, with dynamic interconnections and each cell subject to different "moods" based on the levels of food, oxygen, and hormones its bathed in. In other words, the smallest possible emulation of a brain is a brain.
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Yes, but sometimes it needs pointed out.
Some people think that their boss is their friend - that they "see eye to eye" - that they "are on the same page". But it is not true. Nope, not true at all. No siree Bob.
A boss is far more likely to act in his/her own best interests than in your best interests. It brings to mind the adage "He who makes himself indispensable makes himself unpromotable" [and the other version "She who makes herself, etc...]. I once had a half-yearly review where my boss marked me down because it wouldn't do for me to have higher grades than he did as he would look bad. At least he had the courtesy to tell me what he was doing and why and, to be fair, I didn't give much of a shit about the part-time-see-me-through-college job anyway.
surely
In Soviet Russia, other or something
That's why I used the word "almost". It's a word that some people, myself included, use to imply that something is very close to but not *exactly* like something else. Try it sometime.
Warfare is endemic in Humanity.
From the Book of Joshua (abbreviated)...
Chapter 6 -
1. NOW Jericho was straitly shut up because of the children of Israel: none went out and none came in.
21 - And they utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and woman, young and old, and ox, and sheep, and ass, with the edge of the sword.
24 - And they burnt the city with fire and all that was therein.
Does this sound familiar to anyone? This is almost pre-historic siege warfare and what could be described as ethnic cleansing. I'm not picking on the Jewish Nation, it's just that they were kind enough to record their deeds where so many others did not. The archaeological record shows many examples of pre-historic walled cities that were destroyed in sieges, so from the earliest days of 'civilisation' we have fought each other.
It was a "for example...."
My mom's dead.
Erm...yeah...the problem is that not ALL women look like Jessica Alba or Kelly Brook when naked. You arrive home and go "Aaarg! Mom please! Put some clothes on for chrissakes. You too Gran."
**shudder**
you could enlarge it several times and make geek wrapping paper for Chrimbo. What better to wrap your son/daughter/artifically-created podform's new microscope or electronic set in than Newtonian Latin wrapping paper? I claim 10% of gross profits as my licensing fee for the idea (got to protect the IP....)
I think you're calling the wrong sort of "support" line...
The term "damage" is quite loose here. NASA can claim that $1.3m of damage was caused whereas I would have described it as "$1.3m was spent plugging the holes that shouldn't have been there in the first place". In this case the 'hacker' isn't causing any damage at all, he's merely exposing a badly designed system. Any damage is the fault of the original progammers.
If the US treasury is any good at its job then it already has plans in place to change the currency. There is a continual change in banknote design anyway so much of any additional cost would disappear into the existing budget for upgrading the existing notes.
1 billion dollars buys 3,731343 ABC1150 Commercial Bill Counters which, it must be pointed out, comes with the ability to cope with different sizes of banknote. This allows for 1 new bill counter for every 100 people in the US - a ratio I am sure that does not need to be met. There will be many, many bill-counting machine in use that will not need to be changed when the currency does.
It wouldn't cost millions to change the processes, nor "billions" to change cash-counting machinery. I'm baffled as to why MY post gets pegged as flamebait and your doesn't. As pointed out by others better informed than myself, the US currency fails to support the needs of the visually impaired and, since the law states that discrimination against the visually impaired is illegal, should be replaced. Even if it costs you an extra dollar this year, which I take it is what you are really complaining about.
That's quite a lot of porn to be carrying about.